In California, foster youth need long-term, consistent care. It requires more commitment than simply prescribing medications.

Granting full practice authority to psychiatric nurses isn’t just good for patients. It’s also fiscally responsible.

Mental health care is complicated, and the many hurdles associated with billing and insurance coverage are frustrating for ...

An agreement reached with HealthAlliance Hospital’s parent company and the attorney general does not mean its behavioral health unit will get all 60 in-patient beds back ...

The United States is in a behavioral health crisis, and Indiana is no exception. Millions of Americans struggle with mental illness and substance use disorders. Yet, too many lack access to the vital ...

Timberline Knolls, a mental health center owned by Acadia Healthcare, skimped on staff. Then came a series of tragedies.

Involuntary commitment is intended to be a last resort with a high bar. At the same time, many PA counties lack other mental ...

The expanded New York law would send people suffering from the chronic condition of mental illness to facilities designed ...

Child diagnoses are rising; however, due to changing definitions, systems, and expectations, it is not an epidemic of illness ...

Across the U.S., some people with mental illness wait months in jail for court-ordered competency evaluations, with little to ...

The governor’s allocation will bring the state’s total count of psychiatric emergency programs to 31 once the new facilities ...

The Arc of Monmouth might have to cut back on behavioral health services for some 500 people with intellectual and ...